Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Publishers Lunch

Don Linn has joined
UK-based Unicorn Publishing Group as a full partner, based in the company's new
Chicago office, helping "to drive the business forward in the US and
Canada" by "working with various galleries, museums, artists,
historians and others across North America on new publishing projects."
Previously, he was director for Chicago University Press Distribution Center.

At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's Kate O'Sullivan has been promoted to senior executive
editor. Allison
Vroegop and Lily
Kessinger have each been promoted to editorial associate.

At Knopf, Erinn
Hartman has been promoted to director of publicity; Jordan Rodman moves
up to publicity manager; and Anna
Dobben is now a publicist.

Liz Tzetzo
joined Macmillan this week as vp, client publisher services. Most recently she
was vp, marketing and sales director at Basic Books.

Roxanne Jones
has been promoted to associate publicist for Berkley.

Book ExpoPete Souza,
author of Obama: An Intimate Portrait: The Historic Presidency in Photographs,
has joined
the adult breakfast event on Thursday, June 1 -- in place of Kenya Barris,
whose book release was postponed to April 2018.

DistributionIngram
Publisher Services announced the addition of five new
distribution clients: Dovetail
Press, PIE
International, Oceanview
Publishing, The
TMG Firm and Ramsey
Press.BookstoresMiami-area The
Bookstore in the Grove will close by June 30 unless
a buyer for the store emerges.

The Queens Bookshophopes
to open in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens in time for the 2017 holiday
season after a $70,000 Kickstarter campaign. Vina Castillo, Natalie Noboa, and
Holly Nikodem announced securing
a space on Lefferts Boulevard.